Call for Contributions

to contribute to a Symposium Issue of a Joint Issue between the

German Law Journal and the

Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law

\"Legal Scholarship and Legal Education in a Transnational World\"

The Editors of the German Law Journal and the Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law invite all interested legal scholars to submit manuscripts for a Symposium Issue dedicated to a critical assessment of the ongoing, global debate on Legal Education Reform. We welcome submissions that would address four conceptual areas of the special issue:

- A mapping of the framework for the changing and complex relationship between legal professionals, academics, and students and identification of contemporary challenges

- On legal education, which will discuss the myriad challenges of curriculum reform, the competing visions of foundational years and core competencies in the context of the legal profession, and the regulatory environment with respect to student mobility.

- On the changing faces of the legal profession, where the analysis will centre on change in the traditional role of lawyers, the different areas of legal intervention at both domestic and international arenas, and the ethics of lawyering.

- On legal scholarship and the changing role and expectations of the legal academic.  This section will consider the changing methodologies of legal scholars, the increased prevalence of performance indicators, and the relationship between theory and practice.

In addition to furthering this meaningful discussion in the journal, the GLJ and Maastricht Journal will host a workshop on the same theme for November 2008 at the University of Maastricht. While this conference has not been finalized, it is our sincere hope that contributors to the special issue will present their article at the conference so as to engage in fruitful dialogue with other scholars on this topic.

The German Law Journal, an anonymously refereed legal periodical established in 2000, published monthly with a global distribution to over 9.000 scholars and legal practitioners, has been a longstanding forum for a critical debate around the questions of internationalization, foundation fields and practice orientation in...